Allegory of Visual Perception, Engraving after Hendrick Goltzius
An engraving shows a nude woman kneeling at right beside a winged putto who grasps a drawing frame, with a cat in the foreground. Behind them, a figure at an easel, a bearded older man, and a bird in flight stand against a sunlit landscape with ships and a globe.
- Artist
- Jan Saenredam
- Date
- 1616
- Medium
- Engraving on laid paper
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 2239 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1616).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds